<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PremEx2000:
So she is simply taking information from the public domain and reporting on it. It's not much different than a reporter providing a report based on events that they witnessed.
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There is a big difference between seeing the Eiffel Tower fall down with your own eyes, and reporting that it happened -- and reading an assertion on the web that the Eiffel Tower just fell down, and reporting that it happened. The first gets you a Pulitzer; the second gets you fired.